Myxopyrum Blume

Type species: Myxopyrum nervosum Blume

Synonyms: Chondrospermum, Myospyrum

Distribution: E. Asia

Number of species: 4

Description (from Flora of China): Shrubs scandent. Branchlets 4-angled. Leaves opposite, simple, petiolate; leaf blade entire or serrate, prominently 3-veined, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary panicles, many flowered. Flowers small, bisexual. Calyx 4-lobed. Corolla yellow or pink, urceolate with fleshy tube longer than lobes or campanulate with tube shorter than lobes; lobes 4, valvate in bud. Stamens 2, inserted at base of corolla tube; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Ovules 2 in each locule, ascending. Stigma subsessile, minute, 2-cleft. Fruit a berry, subglobose. Seeds with fleshy or cuticular endosperm; radicle downward.

Species list

• Myxopyrum in the Flora of China

References

• Franzyk, H., Jensen, S. R., Olsen, C. E. 2001. Iridoid Glucosides from Myxopyrum smilacifolium. J. Nat. Prod. 64: 632-633.
• Hill, A. W. 1910. The genus Myxopyrum. Kew Bull. (1910): 37-44.
• Kiew, R. 1983. Two unusual Chionanthus species from Borneo and the position of Myxopyrum in the Oleaceae. J. Arnold Arb. 64: 619-626.
• Kiew, R. 1984. The genus Myxopyrum L. (Oleaceae). Blumea 29: 499-512.
• van Steenis, C. G. G. J. 1967. The affinity of the genus Myxopyrum within the Oleaceae, with description of a remarkable new species from Borneo. Blumea 15(1): 151-152.

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